Further Extracurricular Success

  • 24 March, 2023
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Fingal Student Enterprise Programme

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Loreto Balbriggan has had a long and very successful history with  Fingal Enterprise Awards and this year the school’s success continued with two of our student enterprises scooping two of the top six prizes at the  Awards ceremony last Wednesday 15th March. Congratulations to Manaal Garana and  Izzy Gaughan whose company ‘Reglossed’ came 2nd the intermediate category and to Molly Smyth, and Jemma Thomas of ‘Plantable Posts’ who came 2nd in the Senior Category All students put in a huge amount of hard work and effort into their ‘Dragons Den’ style presentations while also making sure that their stalls were the most eye catching and appealing. Well done to all our other participating student enterprises; ‘A&E Made’, ‘Pinsable’, ‘Deco Case’, and ‘FFE Haircare’ who made it through to this stage of the competition, a huge achievement! Special thanks to Ms. Gartland and Ms. Synnott for their continued support, encouragement and guidance to the girls.

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 Fóroige NFTE Dublin Regional  Finals

Following on from their success at the Fingal Student Enterprise competition,  Molly Smyth and Jemma Thomas and their brilliant business ‘Plantable Posts’ won the Foroige NFTE Dublin regional category for their work creating, marketing and selling eco-friendly greetings cards from recycled paper with wildflower seeds embedded in the paper. The girls will now progress to the national semi-finals where they will get the opportunity to pitch their product to a panel of established entrepreneurs.

 

 

HOCKEY

The success continues for our Junior, Minor and Senior A teams who all won their respective Northside League finals on Wednesday. A special mention to our 6th year students; Aoife Gleeson, Caoimhe McCann, Nicole Ford, Aisling Patterson, Hailey Clark, Hannah Tighe and Erika Mitchell who played their last match for Loreto Balbriggan. Their contribution and dedication to hockey over the last 6 years cannot be understated, and we will all miss them as they move forward with a bright future in hockey ahead of them.

 On Monday there were more great wins for the 1st year players and Senior B teams in the Northside League playoffs versus Skerries Community College. Both teams are now through to the finals on March 29th.

 

Soccer

A 2-2 thriller decided in extra time with a game winning goal from Muireann Bagley to crown Loreto Balbriggan, Regional League Champions for a second successive season!
Other goals from Georgia Ford and Muireann Bagley set the team on the road to victory. A special mention must be paid to Nayeli Ruvalcaba who was voted player of the match for an outstanding defensive display.
Congratulations to all as this very talented team moves on to the division 1 quarter finals.

Basketball.

On Thursday 1st years and 2nd years hosted the Loreto semi-finals. Playing against Loreto Swords the Minors and Juniors succeeded in winning both matches and now proceed to the Loreto finals next week. We would like to wish the team the very best of luck.

 

 

Congratulations to the Minor and Junior basketball teams who had a fantastic day in Oblate Hall. The Minors had a nail biting match that ended with a win of 27-26, securing them the 3rd place spot in the All Ireland finals. The Juniors fought hard right until the end but missed out on the title of the East League winners, coming in 2nd place. Congratulations to Portmarnock CS on winning. Both teams have their Loreto League finals next week and will advance to the All Ireland finals after the Easter holidays. Best of luck to them in their future games!

 

 

 

 Grainne O’Neill Legal Essay Competition.

Congratulations to TY Huriyah Baqer who reached the final of the ‘National Grainne O’Neill Legal Essay Competition’. Huriyah’s excellent essay was written on the topic of ‘The law and social media: striking a balance between freedom of expression and responsible usage’. Students from all across Ireland are invited to take part in this competition organised by the Law Society of Ireland.

 

Junior Cycle

Home Economics.

It was a very busy week for 3rd year Home Economics students as they completed their practical exams. Well done to everyone who put in so much effort and produced such beautiful and creative dishes.

 

TY News

Armed Response Unit Visit.

Many thanks to the members of the Garda Armed Support Unit, Sergeant Lynch and Garda Molloy, who delivered a fascinating and insightful talk to TY students on Monday.
We would like to send our best wishes to all of our Muslim students as the holy month of Ramadan begins. Just a reminder that for the month of Ramadan, the religion room is open to all of those who observe Ramadan during lunchtime for prayer.